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10 10  Please find below a documentation of the layout and requirements needed to keep the openMINDS modularity, the syntax of the openMINDS schema template, as well as the openMINDS integration pipeline.
11 11  )))
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13 -=== The openMINDS umbrella ===
13 +=== Overview of the openMINDS layout ===
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16 16  In summary, openMINDS is the overall umbrella for a set of distributed GitHub repositories, each defining a particular metadata model for neuroscience research products.
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19 -The main (or central) [[openMINDS GitHub repository>>https://github.com/HumanBrainProject/openMINDS||rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"]] ingests all these GitHub repositories as [[git-submodules>>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule||rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"]]. Furthermore it stores the openMINDS vocabulary (**##vocab##**), providing general definitions and references for **types** and **properties** used in schemas across all openMINDS repositories (cf. below). And last but not least, it holds the schema representations for all supported metadata formats created by the openMINDS integration pipeline (cf. below).
18 +=== The openMINDS schema template syntax ===
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22 -For this to work smoothly for the existing, but also for all new openMINDS metadata models, the corresponding openMINDS submodules (GitHub repositories) have to meet the following requirements:
21 +All openMINDS metadata models use a light-weighted schema template syntax for defining the metadata. The correspondingly formatted schema files use the extension: **##.schema.tpl.json##**.
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25 -**(1)** The openMINDS metadata model has to be located on a **public GitHub repository** and published under an **MIT license**.
24 +Although, as the file extension suggests, this openMINDS schema template syntax is inspired by JSON-Schema, it facilitates or even excludes technical aspects that are generally expected for the openMINDS schemas making them more human-readable, especially for untrained eyes. Behind the scenes, within the openMINDS integration pipeline (cf. below), this schema template syntax is then interpreted and flexibly translated to various formal metadata formats (e.g., JSON-Schema).
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28 -**(2)** The GitHub repository should have at least one **version branch** (e.g., "v1").
27 +Despite the simplification in comparison to JSON-Schema, the openMINDS schema templates are also, at the core, specially formatted JSON files using a particular syntax, meaning special key-value pairs that define the validation rules of a schema.
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31 -**(3)** The version branch should have the following **main directory folders**: **##schemas##** (required), **##tests##** (recommended),  **##examples##** (recommended), and **##img##** (optional).
30 +Please find in the following a full documentation of the openMINDS schema template syntax and how it's key-value pairs need to be defined and interpreted.
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34 -**(4)** The **##schemas##** folder should contain the schemas of that metadata model implemented in the **openMINDS schema template syntax** (cf. below). The directory of the schemas can be further structured or flat.
33 +===== Target & context templates =====
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37 -**(5)** The **##tests##** folder should contain test-instances (JSON-LDs) for the schemas in a flat directory. The file names for these test-instances should follow the convention of
36 +Same as in JSON-Schema, all openMINDS schemas define the name and value of the metadata they expect under the key **##properties##** as nested dictionaries, and which of those properties is obligatory under the key **##required##** listing the corresponding property names, as depicted here:
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40 -**##<<XXX>>-<<YYY>>.jsonld##**
38 +{{code language="json"}}
39 +{
40 + "properties": {
41 + "propertyNameA": {},
42 + "propertyNameB": {},
43 + "propertyNameC": {}
44 + },
45 + "required": [
46 + "propertyNameA",
47 + "propertyNameC"
48 + ]
49 +}
50 +{{/code}}
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43 -for files that should pass the tests, and
53 +In addition, an openMINDS schema //has to have// a key **##"_type"##** to be recognized as **target template**. In other words, the **##"_type"##** is used to define the openMINDS namespace of a corresponding schema using a particular naming convention, as depicted here:
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46 -**##<<XXX>>-<<YYY>>-nok.jsonld##**
55 +{{code language="json"}}
56 +{
57 + "_type": "https:~/~/openminds.ebrains.eu/<<schema-model>>/<<schema-name>>",
58 + "properties": {},
59 + "required": []
60 +}
61 +{{/code}}
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49 -for files that should fail the test. In both cases, **##<<XXX>>##** should be replaced with the label of the schema that is tested, and **##<<YYY>>##** with a user defined label for what aspect is tested (e.g., **##person-withoutCI.jsonld##**).
64 +where **##<<schema-model>>##** has to be replaced with the label of the openMINDS metadata model to which the corresponding schema belongs to, and **##<<schema-name>>##** has to be replaced with the corresponding name of that schema (written in **##CamelCase##**).
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52 -**(6)** The **##examples##** folder should contain examples for valid instance collections for that metadata model. Each example should receive its own directory (folder) with a **##README.md##** describing the example, and an **##metadataCollection##** subfolder containing the openMINDS instances (JSON-LDs). This subfolder can be further structured or flat.
67 +If an openMINDS schema template //does not// define a key **##"_type"##** (as in the first example above), it is interpreted as a **context template** which //has to be// extended to a target template.
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55 -**(7)** The **##img##** folder should contain image files used on that GitHub repository (e.g., the logo of the new openMINDS metadata model). The directory of the images can be further structured or flat.
70 +Context templates are and should be used when multiple openMINDS schemas (target templates) have the same subset of properties. Such a common subset of properties can then be defined within a single context schema instead of each target template which facilitates the long-term maintenance of these properties.
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57 -=== The openMINDS vocabulary ===
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60 -Through the integration pipeline of the openMINDS generator, the openMINDS vocabulary is automatically gathered and stored in the main openMINDS GitHub in order to centrally maintain general definitions and references for **types** and **properties** used in schemas across all openMINDS repositories. How this works is explained in the following.
73 +To define that a target template is the extension of a context template, the target template can state under **##"_extends"##** the relative path to the context template. For example, the openMINDS core target template **##Dataset##** extends the core concept template **##researchProduct##**:
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63 -Schema types and properties are stored in dedicated JSON files (**##types.json##** and **##properties.json##**) under the folder **##vocab##** located in the main openMINDS GitHub directory. Each schema type and property occurring in the openMINDS metadata models is automatically represented in those files as nested dictionaries. Here a cutout of the **##types.json##**:
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65 65  {{code language="json"}}
66 66  {
67 - ...,
68 - "https://openminds.ebrains.eu/core/Person": {
69 - "description": "Structured information on a person (alive or dead).",
70 - "name": "Person",
71 - "translatableTo": [
72 - "https://schema.org/Person"
73 - ]
74 - },
75 - ...
77 + "_type": "https:~/~/openminds.ebrains.eu/core/Dataset",
78 + "_extends": "products/researchProduct.schema.tpl.json",
79 + "properties": []
76 76  }
77 77  {{/code}}
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79 -... and a cutout of the **##properties.json##**:
83 +Note that this convention requires the context and corresponding target templates to be located in the same openMINDS metadata model repository. Note also that both, target and concept template, can or cannot define required properties. In this context, the following rules apply: 
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81 -{{code language="json"}}
82 -{
83 - ...,
84 - "givenName": {
85 - "description": "Name given to a person, including all potential middle names, but excluding the family name.",
86 - "name": "Given name",
87 - "nameForReverseLink": "Is given name of",
88 - "sameAs": [
89 - "https://schema.org/givenName"
90 - ],
91 - "schemas": [
92 - "core/v3/actors/person.schema.tpl.json"
93 - ]
94 - },
95 - ...
96 -}
97 -{{/code}}
85 +1. If a concept template requires properties, the target templates extending this concept template require the same properties.
86 +1. A target template can require properties of the concept template, that are not explicitly required within the concept template. Other target templates extending the same concept template will not require those properties.
87 +1. A target template can define and require additional properties that were not defined and required in the concept template. These properties are not shared with the other target templates that extend the same concept template.
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100 -The keywords of those nested dictionaries are pre-defined to consistently capture for all schema types and properties their namespace, their occurrence (cf. **##"schemas"##** in **##properties.json##**), their general description (cf. **##"description"##** in **##types.json##** and **##properties.json##**), and possible references to related or matching schema types (cf. **##"translatableTo"##** in **##types.json##**) and properties (cf. **##""sameAs""##** in **##properties.json##**) of other metadata initiatives (e.g., schema.org).
89 +How to define the expected value of a property will be explained for the different property types in the following sections.
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103 -This setup also allows us to define some values/entries to be automatically filled in by the openMINDS integration pipeline with each commit to one of the openMINDS repositories (**##"name"##**, **##"schemas"##**) and others to be manually editable later on (**##"description"##**, **##"translatableTo"##**, **##"sameAs"##**, **##"nameForReverseLink"##**).
92 +===== String properties =====
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106 -For security, outdated entries in those openMINDS vocabulary files (e.g., because the namespace of the schema type or property changed or the schema type or property was deleted) are not automatically deleted, but kept and marked as being deprecated. After evaluation, deprecated schema types or properties can be deleted manually from openMINDS vocabulary.
95 +(//**coming soon**//)
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109 -With that, the openMINDS vocab reflects always an up-to-date status of the schema types and properties in use across all openMINDS metadata models, while providing the opportunity to centrally review and maintain their consistency and references.
98 +===== Numerical properties =====
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111 -=== The openMINDS schema template syntax ===
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114 -All openMINDS metadata models are defined using a light-weighted schema template syntax. Although this schema template syntax is inspired by JSON-Schema, it outsources most schema technicalities to be handled in the openMINDS integration pipeline, making the openMINDS schemas more human-readable, especially for untrained eyes. The few remaining customized technical properties which need additional interpretation are prefixed in the syntax with **##"_"##**. Within the openMINDS integration pipeline (cf. below), the schema template syntax is interpreted, extended and flexibly translated to various formal metadata formats (e.g., JSON-Schema). The specifications of the openMINDS schema template syntax are described in following.
101 +(//**coming soon**//)
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117 -All openMINDS schemas need to have the extension **##.schema.tpl.json##** and each schema is defined as a nested associative array (dictionary) with the following conceptual structure:
104 +===== Object properties =====
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119 -{{code language="json"}}
120 -{
121 - "_type": "https://openminds.ebrains.eu/LABEL_OF_METADATA_MODEL/SCHEMA_NAME",
122 - "properties": {
123 - "PROPERTY_NAME": {
124 - "type": "DATA_TYPE",
125 - "_instruction": "METADATA_ENTRY_INSTRUCTION"
126 - },
127 - "required": [
128 - "PROPERTY_NAME"
129 - ]
130 -}
131 -{{/code}}
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134 -**##"_type"##** defines the schema type (or namespace) with the depicted naming convention, where the label of the respective openMINDS metadata model (e.g., **##"core"##**) and the schema name (format: UpperCamelCase; e.g. **##"Person"##**) have to be specified. The schema name should be meaningful and provide some insides into what metadata content the schema covers.
107 +(//**coming soon**//)
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137 -Under **##"properties"##** a nested associated array is defined, where each key defines the property name (format: lowerCamelCase; e.g. **##"givenName"##**) and the associated value is again a nested associated array defining the expected data **##"type"##** and the **##"_instructions"##** for entering the correct metadata for the respective property. Currently the openMINDS schema template syntax supports the following data types: **##"string, **##"integer"##**, **##"float"##**, **##"boolean"##**, **##"array"##** and **##"object"##**. Depending on the expected data type additional constraints can be made for the metadata entry of a respective property (cf. below).
110 +===== Property arrays =====
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140 -Under **##"required"##** a list of property names can be provided that are obligatory to be present in a correctly instantiated metadata instance of the respective schema. If none of the properties are required, this key-value pair does not have to be specified.
113 +(//**coming soon**//)
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142 142  === The openMINDS integration pipeline ===
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144 -(//**coming soon**//) If you'd like to learn more about the openMINDS integration pipeline, especially if you'd like to contribute to it, please get in touch with us (the openMINDS development team) via the issues on the openMINDS or openMINDS_generator GitHub or the support email: openminds@ebrains.eu
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118 +(//**coming soon**//)
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